Lola Stong-Brett

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Lola Stong-Brett is an artist from London who is currently based in Margate. Primarily working in oil, Lola’s paintings mingle abstraction with figuration to depict altered realities of our everyday. Taking imprints of her immediate surroundings, she uses gestural, emotive mark-making to explore wider social themes on class, memory, and nostalgia. Inspiration for Lola’s work is largely drawn from the mundane; Pool tables, pub scenes, and concrete slabs enter her work, alongside text from poems she’s written, that appear almost like graffiti, across the canvas. Visuals based on Max Fleischer's Bimbo and Pop-Eye appear in her paintings, depicting the gritty lives of everyday people. Her own cartoons dominate the canvas, blurring the boundaries between high and low-end art. Lola graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2019 with a First-Class Honours degree in painting. She is currently enrolled in the Tracey Emin Artist Residency, where she will have a final show in the Summer of 2024. Some the galleries she has exhibited with include the Royal Scottish Academy and Rafiki Gallery in Edinburgh, and Roman Road Gallery in London.
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B.1996 in London. Lives and Works in Margate

 

Education

2023–2024 Tracey Emin Artist Residency, Margate

2017 –2019 Edinburgh College of Art, First Class Honours Degree Painting

2016-2017 Royal Drawing School, Art Foundation, Merit

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Beyond Boundaries, Guts Gallery, London

2024 Knocking on Heavens Door, Roman Road Gallery, Christies, London

2024 Tracey Emin Artist Residency, Final Show, TKE Studios, Margate

2023 Tracey Emin Artist Residency, Interim Show, Margate

2023 Canon of Beauty Roman Road Gallery, London

2023 30x30 Society of Scottish Artist Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2022 Embassy Gallery Annual Exhibition, Settlement Projects, Edinburgh

2022 Abbeymount Open Studios, Edinburgh

2022 Colouring Book, Online Exhibition, Good Mother Gallery, California

2022 Chaos In The Cosmos, Bleach Studios, Edinburgh

2021 Abstract Zeitgeist, Rafiki Gallery, The Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh

2020 New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2019 Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

2019 Sleepy Wee’s, Group Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

2018 Weepy Pre’s, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

 

Awards

2020 New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh